The mayor and police chief assured Bosnian immigrants Thursday that authorities would not stand for any backlash against them after an Bosnian teenager shot five people to death in a crowded shopping mall and then died in a shootout with police.
As many as 10,000 people from the Balkans, many of them war refugees and some Muslim, have made Utah their home.
Mayor Rocky Anderson condemned critics who lashed out at Bosnian immigrants in blogs, e-mails and phone calls, complaining that they jumped to “unjustified, outrageous conclusions” simply because a Muslim was involved.
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